Acts 21:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

To weep

Acts 20:37

Philippians 2:26

2 Timothy 1:4

For

General references

Matthew 26:46

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

To weep

And all of them shed floods of tears, and fell upon Paul's neck, and kissed him again and again,

For indeed he greatly longed after you all, and was very sorry that ye had heard that he had been sick.

earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I might be filled with joy;

For

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall distress of circumstances, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?

I solemnly declare by all the joy over you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

always bearing about in the body the death pangs of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

Yea, and should I become the victim, in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

No man who enters the army involves himself with secular affairs; that he may please the person who hath enlisted him.

For I am now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution approaches.

knowing that the deposition of this frail tabernacle of mine is hastily approaching, as our Lord Jesus Christ hath made evident to me.

Because thou hast keep the word of my patience, I also will preserve thee from the hour of temptation, which is coming upon the whole habitable globe to try the dwellers upon earth.

And they have vanquished him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.

General references

Arise, let us go: lo! he that betrayeth me approaches.

so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;